Broken glRenderMode() (fixed in PyOpenGL 3.0.0b4)

[Robert Ancell]

Binary package hint: python-opengl

There is a bug in PyOpenGL that causes a glRenderMode() call to fail on some systems. This bug appears to be fixed in python-opengl 3.0.0b4 as the following suggested change was made:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=498403

We are seeing a symptom of this in GNOME games where some systems crash when clicking on the 3D chess view:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=538252

We have modified Chess in 2.24.1 to catch this error and ignore the user press to stop user data loss and bug reports being sent to GNOME. The result is users with this problem will not be able to move pieces in the 3D view.

If Intrepid ships with the current version of python-opengl I would expect a large number of users to be unable to access the 3D mode of Chess in Ubuntu. I strongly recommend that you consider fixing this bug before release.

[Fabrice Coutadeur (fabricesp)]

debdiff with the patch that fix this issue (comes from debian bug)

[James Westby (james-w)]

Uploaded, thank you.

I would have preferred it if you would have also thanked the patch
author in the changelog entry.

Thanks,

James

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package pyopengl - 3.0.0~b3-1ubuntu2

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pyopengl (3.0.0~b3-1ubuntu2) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Fix broken glRenderMode() with patch 4_fix_broken_glRenderModer.dpatch
    (Closes LP: #283717) (thanks Robert Ancell)

 -- Fabrice Coutadeur <email address hidden> Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:13:40 +0200

[Richard Cavell (richardcavell)]

I'm marking bug 279534 as a duplicate of this. Note that bug 350850 is not a duplicate of the same bug, although I bet they are related.

Richard